| Expecting...................18 | |
| makes you hold on to God's apron strings, expecting Him to run your life for you. Then | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| only a tiny bit of your weakness, while expecting results that you would only be entitled to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the selfish motive is not as pure as expecting happiness only as a byproduct, it is still | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the suffering. Among other requirements, that means not expecting a miracle overnight. Understand that you learn also | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| accepting yourself as you are now -- without expecting a perfect life when you are not yet | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to the point when you can love without expecting it back from the same source. You will | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| outwardly, or in the form you have mentioned, expecting the Spirit World to hand out knowledge that | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the pain, but in a negative way, always expecting it to be remedied from the outside. Such | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a different way, by giving it instead of expecting it. It must always be emphasized, however, that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| perceive in a natural and relaxed way, without expecting immediate results, rather than anticipating a drastic change | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| yourself for them. Such self-contempt is connected with expecting too much and therefore with moralizing. I might | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| living in a make-believe world of future fulfillment, expecting that today's fantasy will turn into tomorrow's reality | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to have them, but without straining and without expecting an immediate result. Do not rush for a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of the real self you were not yet expecting it. Because it came unbidden, inadvertently, as it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| feel a strong negative pull against it, but, expecting it, you are prepared and do not allow | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of things, or prevent a favorable outcome by expecting the worst, the ability already exists in you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| fulfilled -- by virtually destroying himself and then expecting health and happiness to be given him by | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| speed designated by the outer-oriented person, who in expecting an instant change is making mistakes in judgment | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Expects.....................14 | |
| will tell you why. When a human being expects answers from God and from the spirit world | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| yourself and your inner or outer motives. God expects this from you. Whoever is not quite happy | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the Creator should receive our prayers. What God expects from you and what is part of perfection | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| hurt or disappointment. The mature person knows this, expects and accepts it, and realizes its worth. When | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of letdown and disappointment with the answer. One expects liberation from the answer -- and no answer | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| longer acts because he feels God demands or expects it of him. He lives in the now | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| damage can be repaired from the outside, and expects help to readjust the disharmonious flow of the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| proclaim -- or what they think the world expects them to be. This other-centeredness amounts to losing | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| a way, prove to her that whatever she expects of me I am not going to fulfill | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| within a person is, the more one-sidedly it expects only to receive. The weaker and more helpless | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| yourself by opposing what you fear the world expects of you? Do you understand? QUESTION: Yes, I | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| by his miserable state and from whom he expects magic cure, while he goes on destroying himself | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| from the outside as the distorted, immature personality expects. Growth can only unfold from within, for within | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| to rebel against a rightful authority who merely expects your rightful part in the mutual venture. Rebellion | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Expediency..................4 | |
| for reasons that seem to you expedient. The expediency is, of course, another way of manipulating the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| adopt the attitude that words are merely an expediency. This will prevent you from making them a | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| latter is never a sacrifice. It is intelligent expediency, arrived at through fully facing a real situation | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and values that are often based only on expediency and on the most shortsighted goals. It is | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Expedient...................7 | |
| exaggerating them for reasons that seem to you expedient. The expediency is, of course, another way of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| longing for pleasure supreme may seem to be expedient because the psyche may feel endangered if it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| -- or, for that matter, if it seems expedient, false unhappiness in order to manipulate, or punish | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the cosmic force. The mind believes it is expedient to block off this material. Therefore, it cannot | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| but momentarily forgotten because you thought it more expedient to forget it. No matter how unaware you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| does not flow smoothly. Some personalities find it expedient to dramatize the weakness and thus attempt to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| process of this path is, of course, an expedient way of reestablishing balance. You find the measure | 228 BALANCE |
| Expense.....................43 | |
| become ruthless in attaining their goal at the expense of others. Again I say, it is not | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that in you which is predominant at the expense of the other two forces that need cultivation | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| makes you feel strong and powerful at the expense of another person's smallness. Now, this may not | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| something, your pleasure will automatically be at the expense of somebody else. Since you were taught that | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| learned to control their thought process at the expense of emotional awareness, so that the benefit is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| if you are happy. But happiness at the expense of selfishness is not the solution. Your aim | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as a true experience of bliss at the expense of another. Realization of this truth will come | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| shallow, temporary, and short-lived gratification, often at the expense of another person, or at the expense of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the expense of another person, or at the expense of a more urgent need of yours. On | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it is too long maintained and at the expense of self-finding, leads to escapism and the false | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| energy on one aspect of life at the expense of another, which might have been more important | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| need. But the need for approval, at the expense of gaining love, is an unhealthy need. Now | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| need. Now, why do I say at the expense of? Because, if you concentrate on being successful | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and courage to be yourself, even at the expense of giving up approval. All of this signifies | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you that an overproduction of daydreams, at the expense of actual living, is unhealthy. Now I am | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to its absence. Too much daydreaming at the expense of actual living may indicate that a part | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the will of God, perhaps sometimes at the expense of outer approval from society, you are being | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| yourself in one area of living at the expense of another. There is room for all kinds | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| form of self-expression needs to suffer at the expense of those forms which have already been freed | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| pleasure, but when you experience pleasure at the expense of harming either others or yourself, you have | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| better equipped to pursue selfish drives at the expense of others. This limitation and ignorance -- just | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| this manifoldedness. Exclusion of certain fulfillments at the expense of others is the result of erroneous, unconscious | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| acknowledged, but it is not exaggerated at the expense of other functions and expressions of the self | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| fantasy, do you expect being favored, at the expense of flexibly adjusting to new circumstances? In these | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| esteemed as oneself -- but never at the expense of being untrue to the self. Healthy self-centeredness | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| that self- enhancement can only exist at the expense of others. This is the either/or resulting from | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| over others, when your uniqueness exists at the expense of others and measures itself against others, this | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| live a life of strenuous pretense at the expense of all the vital energy and life force | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| interplay and no weighting of one at the expense of another. The will center is also the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| negative, when it is no longer at the expense of another human being, when it no longer | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| truths about myself, even at the apparently greatest expense, that of parting from my illusion of how | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| illusion of a false order at a great expense. There is a direct connection between order and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in a person's life, or exists at the expense of feelings, of expansion, of relaxation, of freedom | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| game? ANSWER: The distortion is self-exoneration at the expense of making others guilty, whose victim you profess | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| others, and that it must triumph at the expense of others. That part is not connected to | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| happiness because they never want it at the expense of others. The distorted form of selfishness splits | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| counts. You must not cultivate one at the expense of the other as people so often tend | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| diminish you. Attempting to become perfect at the expense of others obviously defeats your very aim, for | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| distortion of this balance is self-indulgence at the expense of others and lacerating self-hate. The distortion is | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| instead take on a parasitic role at the expense of others. But in this distortion of the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at the expense of others, out of fear of conforming, of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| period of concentrating on the self at the expense of invisible forces, the time has come when | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to maintain its very life, surviving at the expense of the other, hence predators and victims. Although | 254 SURRENDER |